Even finding a floppy disk drive of this size is a difficult task, ... Guess I might as well dump my tape of Ultrix – 11 (DEC Unix). Report comment. Reply. Ecky Thump says: ...

As I mentioned last week, the most popular hard disk back-up system is called streaming tape. It`s magnetic tape, in a cassette, that fits into a special recorder and makes a copy of everything on ...

In many ways, the floppy disk thrived in between the worlds of the cassette tape and the CD, offering an early glimpse of what could be possible with the digital experience.

Instead of the little pancake of magnetic tape that most floppy disks have inside, thess disks are actually just mostly empty pieces of plastic that have been modified to fit normal SD cards ...

Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or magnetic storage, ... I know 3M mostly for its double sided tape and PPE, never imagined a floppy disk division. Report comment. Reply.

Computer tape, usually stored in open reels, ... It stored 21MB of data on a special 3.5-inch magnetic floppy disk (upper left). Unlike some alternative forms of storage, ...

The floppy disk, invented and made by IBM in 1967, was once the preferred format for storing files and transferring them between computers – but you'd be lucky to find one being used today.

You see them sometimes at garage sales or thrift stores, lying forlornly in a cardboard box, the music of some pop-music star of the early 1970s locked within their plastic cases, never to be ...

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.. Within the government, Mr ...